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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1977
Page
2
A proposed energy plan wins House approval and heads to the Senate. The measure contemplates a broad tax on gasoline, new levies, and price controls, with debated penalties and dates. Opposition centers on consumer costs and the impact on buyers, while lawmakers weigh revenue use and implementation timelines.
PDAP is expanding with a Baytown center plan. Lavelidge notes 13 Houston centers and 3 elsewhere, funded by donations and grants. A fundraising drive targets $425,000 for one year to cover 14 counselors and training costs. Donors can send to Henry Armstrong, Cedar Haven, Maytown, TX 77520.
Crosby Fair banquet honors longtime speaker Jack Warton with Horton of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank presiding. About 500 potential attendees and farm officials plan to attend the event at 7:10 pm Monday at Crosby High School. Andy Malley will host, Kyle Greenwade will light the incense, with Tain Adtang and future Mariners of Americas speaker presenting. A cake donated by Donald Tel will be auctioned to help fund the event.
Andrew Roth will become a new special education teacher at Seligary High this fall. He earned a cum laude bachelor of science in secondary education from North Texas State University and is a member of the Council for Exceptional Children. He and his wife Shelley live at 160 Farth. he enjoys guitar, sailing, photography and refinishing furniture.
An obituary notice lists Edward Ciker Bot and family, with services under Earthman Highlands Funeral Home. It notes deaths of multiple relatives including a Mr. Fenerel Hesse, and lists survivors such as Greve Tim-Ling and Ubik Chen, with service details and locations in Bay City and Highlands.
A patrolman assisted a motorist with a flat near 146 and Bowie Street Baytown. Officers found the same stolen vehicle, owned by Admiral Henta Car in Mineral Wells and reported missing. The car was impounded and Mineral Wells authorities notified. A man and woman were seen in the car around 1 pm Thursday. the tire remained flat into Saturday.
The Annual Methodist Youth Activities Week runs Sunday to Thursday with events starting at 7 p.m Sunday at Grace United Methodist Church and 6 p.m on subsequent nights at St. Mark's United Methodist Church.
A trash fire at the Sports Complex was put out early Saturday morning. The fire department reported no damage beyond the trash itself and no injuries.
The Prestige Support Group meets Monday at 7 p.m. at 1209 Decker River Suite 202 with BACE aT to discuss getting started and how to engage the group.
Officials investigate a case involving the illegal import of more than 69 reptiles into the country including death adders Taipan snakes Fiji iguanas and Johnston's crocodiles. The indictment marks a first under the Endangered Species Act with penalties listed at 5.00 for each count.
A Uysaeald man led police on a chase at speeds up to 90 mph early Saturday. He surrendered and stayed in city jail Saturday morning on a $400 bond. Officer James Lee saw the suspect display a sign and pursued to Airhart and Park before the pursuit ended at Airhart Vand Qakwood. The driver’s license was suspended amid a long traffic record.
AUSTIN- Texas may bid for the 1943 Summer Olympics if U S cities fail to land the 1924 games. Gov Dolph Briscoe plans a Monday meeting with three Southwest governors for the Southwest Border Regional Commission. In Amman Jordan Secretary of State Vance, rebuffed by Syria, may extend his mission to seek consensus for an Arab Israeli settlement. Dallas reports only light rain as thunder storms move through the Texas Panhandle.
Burglaries here totaled about seven thousand dollars in losses with a peak of thirty five thousand in musical instruments taken from the Neva F Tempiin residence at 6601 Bayway. Thursday night or Friday a patrolman aided losses including rods and reels a television set and a radio. Other burglaries included about eight hundred sixty dollars from Coastal Armature Works 919 W Main and about six hundred dollars in jewelry from Jess Ycarra 805 W Texas. An electric guitar and amplifier were taken from a car belonging to Sammy L Roberts of Missouri City while parked at Harbor Street between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday.
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